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StoryTitle("caps", "The Owl and the Pussy-Cat ") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PagePoem(71, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The Owl and the Pussy-Cat went to sea ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "In a beautiful pea-green boat", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "They took some honey, and plenty of money ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Wrapped up in a five-pound note.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The Owl looked up to the stars above, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And sang to a small guitar,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "\"O lovely Pussy, O Pussy, my love,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "What a beautiful Pussy you are,—you are! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "What a beautiful Pussy you are!\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Pussy said to the Owl, \"You elegant fowl, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "How charmingly sweet you sing!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Oh! let us be married, too long we have tarried, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "But what shall we do for a ring?\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "They sailed away, for a year and a day ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "To the land where the bong-tree grows; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And there in a wood a Piggy-wig stood ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "With a ring at the end of his nose,—his nose, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "With a ring at the end of his nose.", "") ?>
PagePoem(72, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "\"Dear Pig, are you willing to sell for one shilling ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Your ring?\" Said the Piggy, \"I will.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "So they took it away, and were married next day ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "By the Turkey who lives on the hill.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "They dined on mince and slices of quince, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Which they ate with a runcible spoon;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "They danced by the light of the moon,—the moon,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "They danced by the light of the moon.", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", SmallCapsText("—Edward Lear.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
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